I understand that the developers of this wonderful world are living on donations right now. Communities that pay for themselves are nicer places!
I found the donate link here (join-lemmy.org/donate), but that seems to go to just one developer. I would like to donate to everyone, including the creators of Lemmy as a whole, and the creators of Lemmy.World.
Thanks for the post. I’ve bought some coffees for the Lemmy.world admin and Memmy dev, but didn’t think to track down the Lemmy dev. Signed up for the Patreon!
So, that one developer is the main developer of Lemmy, and you may be surprised to find out there are only two of them. Lemmy is open source and takes contributions from others, but its development is driven by two full time devs.
If you want to donate to development, that’s how to do it. If you want to donate to a specific instance to keep it online, then follow any donation instructions in your instance’s sidebar.
The way I’ve seen it be done is that an instance creates and open collective or ko fi fund. Then people donate into that and then the instance admins can use the money in that fund to cover hosting costs, upgrades, time spent on issues etc.
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